Re: st: Stata and memory use under linux (Off topic)

["Guillaume Frechette" <gurst1@hotmail.com>]

Thanks to all that answered. For Tom's information, my set mem is as big as 
I could make it (I can't remember the exact number) and I have 1 gig of ram. 
I guess I just have to wait or buy a faster cpu...

g


> From: Tom Trikalinos <ttrikalin@mac.com>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: Stata and memory use under linux (Off topic)
> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:28:52 +0200
>
> I'm not a seasoned LINUX guy, but clarify this first
> 1. what amount of memory have you allocated to STATA? is your _set mem_ 
> number really low?
> 2. On the other hand, are you working in  workstation with lots of RAM --> 
> 0.9% is actually a large number?
> all the best
> tom
>
> On Jan 6, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Guillaume Frechette wrote:
>
>
> > Dear Statalisters who know about linux: I am running a long and 
> > computationaly intensive do file in Stata (it uses gllamm). When I use the 
> > top or ps commands I notice that 99% of cpu usage is dedicated to stata 
> > but only 0.9% of memory. Am I doing something wrong? Does that mean the 
> > cpu is the bottleneck (I thought RAM was more often than not the 
> > bottleneck)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > g
> >
> >
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